Word: joking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crawls under a bench outside the castle to take a nap. The Captain of the Guard hauls him out and is giving him a thrashing when Prince Edward comes out of the palace to call his dog. Prince invites pauper indoors to play. They change clothes for a joke, laugh when the mirror shows how much they look alike. Then the Prince runs out again to find his dog. The Captain of the Guard, thinking it is the pauper, resumes his interrupted thrashing, tosses Prince Edward out into the street...
Rumblings from the Business School are moving the riot disturbance, and joke center across the river and out of the yard...
Last week, for a change, Scotland provided British music halls with a joke on itself. In the House of Commons, Scottish M. P.'s were discussing a Spirits Bill for Scotland. Before them came an expert on Scottish peculiarities who revealed that, by mixing milk with cheap Eau de Cologne, a potent potion can be made for next to nothing. Added the expert: "This drink is a common one in Scotland. . . . Four gallons would do the trick on a whole football crowd." The Scottish M. P.'s, blushing for the fair name of Scotch whiskey, indignantly recommended that...
Ushering in the spring joke season, one of the most successful hoaxes in recent years was perpetrated at noon yesterday when 1500 birth-control conscious undergraduates were lured to the New Lecture Hall by an unknown pied piper...
Different solutions to the unexplainable freak of nature have been offered. Some say the valuable cargo was dropped to the Music Room prided above all else by the Bell-boys. Still others contend that Lampy is celebrating the appearance of a "humorous" joke in their publication...